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Author	LexyNoise
Comment	The closures are real. They tend to do part-time closures on the M8 while they're working. Rather than closing part of the road for three days and working round the clock to get the work done, they'll close a section every Tuesday night between 11PM and 3AM for six months. I was a nightclub DJ before all this shite kicked off, so I used to drive on the M8 at 10PM and 4AM a couple of nights a week. I can count on one hand the number of nights in 2019 when the entire road was open. Their favourite techniques included: * You're turning left at the end of the Expressway to join the M8? Ha - fuck you! We've coned it off! Away up to the Sauchiehall Street junction and sit at those traffic lights for ages ya dobber. * We haven't coned off the Expressway entrance tonight, so on you go. Ha, fooled you! All the other lanes are coned off. You're going straight off again at the Charing Cross tunnel. * The expressway entrance isn't coned off and... yep, looks like you can merge off the slip road onto the M8. All seems good so far. Oh, wait, what's this? All four lanes are merging into one lane and everybody's getting chucked off at the Springburn exit. Got you again, ya dick! * Replacing a couple of lights in the Charing Cross tunnel with LEDs? Dunno, mate. That sounds like a big job. Better close the entire M8 every night for a month. What do you mean the lights are only above one lane? What's that got to do with it?
Reddit Link	https://www.reddit.com/r/glasgow/comments/ibwwlu/fake_closures_on_the_m8/g1zu5kx/
Created	Tue 18th Aug 2020 4:52pm
Status	normal ()

The closures are real. They tend to do part-time closures on the M8 while they're working.

Rather than closing part of the road for three days and working round the clock to get the work done, they'll close a section every Tuesday night between 11PM and 3AM for six months.

I was a nightclub DJ before all this shite kicked off, so I used to drive on the M8 at 10PM and 4AM a couple of nights a week. I can count on one hand the number of nights in 2019 when the entire road was open.

Their favourite techniques included:

* You're turning left at the end of the Expressway to join the M8? Ha - fuck you! We've coned it off! Away up to the Sauchiehall Street junction and sit at those traffic lights for ages ya dobber.
* We haven't coned off the Expressway entrance tonight, so on you go. Ha, fooled you! All the other lanes are coned off. You're going straight off again at the Charing Cross tunnel.
* The expressway entrance isn't coned off and... yep, looks like you can merge off the slip road onto the M8. All seems good so far. Oh, wait, what's this? All four lanes are merging into one lane and everybody's getting chucked off at the Springburn exit. Got you again, ya dick!
* Replacing a couple of lights in the Charing Cross tunnel with LEDs? Dunno, mate. That sounds like a big job. Better close the entire M8 every night for a month. What do you mean the lights are only above one lane? What's that got to do with it?